Across
- 1. To restore confidence in banks and encourage savings Congress created this to insure bank customers received up to $5,000 of their deposits if their banks should fail. Reform
- 4. Took unmarried men aged 18-25 and sent them into the woods and fields to plant trees, build parks, roads, and fight soil erosion on federal lands. Relief
- 6. Built twenty dams to control flooding, generate hydro-electrical power, increase agricultural production, and revitalize the Tennessee Valley region. Reform
- 7. Spent over $4 billion on 34,000 construction projects including public buildings, highways, bridges and dams for water and power. Ex San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. Relief/Recovery
- 9. Provided small loans for home construction to stimulate the building industry. A related program, was the Home Owners' Loan Corporation(HOLC). Recovery
Down
- 1. The last major piece of New Deal legislation. This important labor law set the minimum wage at 25 cents/hour and established the 40-hour work week. It also severely limited the use of child labor.
- 2. Employed four million people for about $15 a week in useful construction jobs such as repairing schools, laying sewer pipes, building roads starting in 1933. Relief
- 3. An agency to protect investors from stock market fraud, deception and insider manipulation on Wall Street. Reform
- 5. Created with the $4.8 billion Emergency Relief Appropriations Act of 1935, provided more than 4.5 million jobs for young people. Relief
- 8. Provided financial support to nearly five million households each month and funded thousands of works projects for the unemployed. Relief